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A street fight on Madison's Southwest Side Wednesday afternoon ended in gunfire, with nobody reported injured, Madison police said.

A state drinking water study has found new contaminants that threaten human health in a Wisconsin county where a large number of wells were already tainted by pollutants linked to manure from a high concentration very large dairy farms.

Police are searching for a 14-year-old boy who reportedly went missing in the Spring Green area.

Planet Mercury's transit, or crossing, of the sun on Monday would be next to impossible, and dangerous, to see with the naked eye, so the Washburn Observatory at UW-Madison will open its doors to the public for safe viewing of…

"Mockingbird" is the final show of Children's Theater of Madison's 2015-2016 season. Performances begin Friday in The Playhouse at the Overture Center.

A new exit ramp from Interstate 39/90 to Highway 59 near Edgerton will open on Saturday, part of the massive rebuild of the major highway between Madison and the Illinois state line.

Maybe it just took a threat to their job security for them to realize the importance of the Wisconsin Idea.

Here in America we think of white asparagus as the pink elephant of the vegetable world — not even a rumor so much as a hallucination.

There's no such thing as too much sushi, and Fuji makes that case in Middleton.

Yvonne Bellay has been DATCP's animal welfare manager for 23 years.

The track has become a home away from home for Barr, who will turn 76 on Monday.

Baseball

One player found a way to stand up to the windy and chilly conditions at University Ridge Golf Course on Wednesday.

The venue aims to both prepare food with fresh produce and sell fresh vegetables directly to consumers.

Members of the MATC District Board voted unanimously to let the college move forward with a plan to shift programs from Downtown Madison to the South Side.

Poynette moves up to No. 3 ranking in Division 3; Juda/Albany holds on to No. 2 ranking in Division 4.

The Madison utility company released its quarterly results on Wednesday.

Zachary T. Hays, 20, is facing one count of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of recklessly endangering safety in Sauk County.

State legislators have spoken negatively about the recent UW-Madison vote of no confidence in University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.

It took a while for me to pick out a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. Just before the Wisconsin primary, I bought one that read, "Bernie Will Win."